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EXHIBIT
10.39
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
by and
among
THE TRIZETTO GROUP,
INC.
and
EACH OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES
THAT ARE SIGNATORIES HERETO
as
Borrowers,
THE LENDERS THAT ARE
SIGNATORIES HERETO
as the
Lenders,
and
WELLS FARGO FOOTHILL,
INC.
as the Arranger and
Administrative Agent
Dated as of
January 10, 2007
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION |
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Definitions
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Accounting Terms
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Code
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Construction
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1.5 |
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Schedules and Exhibits
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LOAN AND TERMS OF PAYMENT |
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2.1 |
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Revolver Advances
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Term Loan
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Borrowing Procedures and
Settlements
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2.4 |
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Payments
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2.5 |
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Overadvances
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2.6 |
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Interest Rates: Rates, Payments, and
Calculations
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2.7 |
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Cash Management
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2.8 |
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Crediting Payments
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Designated Account
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2.10 |
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Maintenance of Loan Account; Statements
of Obligations
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2.11 |
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Fees
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Letter of Credit
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2.13 |
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LIBOR Option
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2.14 |
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Capital Requirements
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Joint and Several Liability of
Borrowers
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CONDITIONS; TERM OF AGREEMENT |
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Conditions Precedent to the Initial
Extension of Credit
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Conditions Precedent to all Extensions
of Credit
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Term
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Effect of Termination
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Early Termination by
Borrowers
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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No Encumbrances
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Intentionally Omitted
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4.3 |
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Inventory
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Equipment
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Location of Inventory and
Equipment
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Inventory Records
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State of Incorporation;
Location of Chief Executive Office; Organizational Identification
Number;
Commercial Tort
Claims
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Due Organization and Qualification;
Subsidiaries
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Due Authorization; No
Conflict
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Litigation
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No Material Adverse Change
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Fraudulent Transfer
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4.13 |
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Employee Benefits
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4.14 |
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Environmental Condition
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4.15 |
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Intellectual Property
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4.16 |
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Leases
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4.17 |
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Deposit Accounts and Securities
Accounts
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4.18 |
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Complete Disclosure
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4.19 |
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Indebtedness
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4.20 |
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Inactive Borrowers
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4.21 |
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Material Contracts
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4.22 |
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Merger Documents
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Accounting System
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Collateral Reporting
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Financial Statements, Reports,
Certificates
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Intentionally Omitted
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Inspection
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Maintenance of Properties
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Taxes
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Insurance
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Location of Inventory and
Equipment
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Compliance with Laws
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Leases
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Existence
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Environmental
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5.14 |
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Disclosure Updates
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5.15 |
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Control Agreements
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5.16 |
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Formation of Subsidiaries
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5.17 |
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Intentionally Omitted
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5.18 |
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Post-Closing Covenants
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5.19 |
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Copyrights
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Assignability of Contracts
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Billing Procedures
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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Indebtedness
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Liens
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Restrictions on Fundamental
Changes
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Disposal of Assets
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Change Name
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Nature of Business
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Prepayments and Amendments
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Change of Control
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Consignments
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6.10 |
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Distributions
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6.11 |
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Accounting Methods
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6.12 |
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Investments
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6.13 |
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Transactions with Affiliates
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Use of Proceeds
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6.15 |
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Inventory and Equipment with
Bailees
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6.16 |
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Financial Covenants
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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THE LENDER GROUP’S RIGHTS AND REMEDIES |
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8.1 |
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Rights and Remedies
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8.2 |
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Remedies Cumulative
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TAXES AND EXPENSES |
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WAIVERS; INDEMNIFICATION |
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10.1 |
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Demand; Protest; etc
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10.2 |
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The Lender Group’s Liability for
Borrower Collateral
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10.3 |
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Indemnification
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NOTICES |
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CHOICE OF LAW AND VENUE; JURY TRIAL WAIVER |
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ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS; SUCCESSORS |
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Assignments and
Participations
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Successors
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AMENDMENTS; WAIVERS |
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14.1 |
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Amendments and Waivers
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14.2 |
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Replacement of Holdout Lender
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No Waivers; Cumulative
Remedies
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AGENT; THE LENDER GROUP |
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15.1 |
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Appointment and Authorization of
Agent
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15.2 |
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Delegation of Duties
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15.3 |
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Liability of Agent
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15.4 |
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Reliance by Agent
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15.5 |
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Notice of Default or Event of
Default
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15.6 |
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Credit Decision
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Costs and Expenses;
Indemnification
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Agent in Individual Capacity
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15.9 |
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Successor Agent
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Lender in Individual Capacity
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15.11 |
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Withholding Taxes
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15.12 |
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Collateral Matters
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15.13 |
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Restrictions on Actions by Lenders;
Sharing of Payments
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Agency for Perfection
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15.15 |
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Payments by Agent to the
Lenders
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15.16 |
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Concerning the Collateral and Related
Loan Documents
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15.17 |
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Field Audits and Examination
Reports; Confidentiality; Disclaimers by Lenders;
Other Reports and
Information
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Several Obligations; No
Liability
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15.19 |
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Bank Product Providers
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GENERAL PROVISIONS |
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16.1 |
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Effectiveness
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16.2 |
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Section Headings
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Interpretation
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16.4 |
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Severability of Provisions
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16.5 |
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Counterparts; Electronic
Execution
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Revival and Reinstatement of
Obligations
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Confidentiality
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Lender Group Expenses
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USA PATRIOT Act
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Integration
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Parent as Agent for Borrowers
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16.12 |
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Changes in Accounting
Policies
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16.13 |
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Amendment and Restatement of Original
Loan Agreement
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
(continued)
EXHIBITS AND
SCHEDULES
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Form of
Assignment and Acceptance |
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Form of
Compliance Certificate |
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L-1 |
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Form of
LIBOR Notice |
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| Schedule
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Agent’s Account |
| Schedule
C-1 |
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Commitments |
| Schedule
D-1 |
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Designated Account |
| Schedule
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Permitted
Liens |
| Schedule
1.1 |
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Definitions |
| Schedule
2.7(a) |
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Cash
Management Banks |
| Schedule
3.1 |
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Conditions Precedent |
| Schedule
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Locations
of Inventory and Equipment |
| Schedule
4.7(a) |
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States of
Organization |
| Schedule
4.7(b) |
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Chief
Executive Offices |
| Schedule
4.7(c) |
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Organizational Identification Numbers |
| Schedule
4.7(d) |
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Commercial Tort Claims |
| Schedule
4.8(b) |
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Capitalization of Borrowers |
| Schedule
4.8(c) |
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Capitalization of Borrowers’ Subsidiaries |
| Schedule
4.14 |
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Environmental Matters |
| Schedule
4.15 |
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Intellectual Property |
| Schedule
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Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts |
| Schedule
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Permitted
Indebtedness |
| Schedule
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Collateral Reporting |
| Schedule
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Financial
Statements, Reports, Certificates |
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Conditions Subsequent |
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CREDIT
AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), is
entered into as of January 10, 2007, by and among the lenders
identified on the signature pages hereof (such lenders, together
with their respective successors and permitted assigns, are
referred to hereinafter each individually as a “Lender”
and collectively as the “ Lenders ”), and
WELLS FARGO FOOTHILL, INC., a California corporation, as the
arranger and administrative agent for the Lenders (in such
capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such
capacity, “ Agent ”), and THE TRIZETTO GROUP,
INC ., a Delaware corporation (“ Parent ”),
and each of Parent’s Subsidiaries identified on the signature
pages hereof (such Subsidiaries, together with Parent, are referred
to hereinafter each individually as a “ Borrower
”, and individually and collectively, jointly and severally,
as the “ Borrowers ”).
W I T N E S S E T
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WHEREAS , Agent, the
Lenders, Parent, and certain of the Borrowers are parties to that
certain Credit Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2004 (as
amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time
prior to the date hereof, the “Original Credit
Agreement”), pursuant to which Agent and certain of the
Lenders provided to certain of the Borrowers a revolving loan
facility in an aggregate principal amount of
$100,000,000;
WHEREAS , Parent has
formed Quartz Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“
Acquico ”), and Acquico, Parent, Michael Lee, in his
capacity as representative, and Quality Care Solutions, Inc. a
Nevada corporation (“ QCSI ”), have entered into
that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of
September 12, 2006 (the “ Merger Agreement
”), pursuant to which Acquico will merge with and into QCSI
with QCSI as the surviving entity (the “ QCSI Merger
”);
WHEREAS , in order to
(a) partially finance the QCSI Merger, (b) pay
transactional fees, costs, and expenses incurred in connection with
this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Merger Documents, and
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and
(c) finance ongoing working capital, capital expenditure, and
general corporate needs of Borrowers, Borrowers have requested that
the Original Credit Agreement be amended in its entirety to, among
other things (i) restate the existing revolving loan facility
in an aggregate principal amount of up to $100,000,000 and
(ii) provide Borrowers with a the term loan facility in the
principal amount of up to $150,000,000; and
WHEREAS , subject to
the foregoing, Agent and the Lenders are willing to so amend and
restate the Original Credit Agreement in accordance with the terms
and conditions hereof; it being understood that no repayment of the
outstanding amounts payable under the Original Credit Agreement as
of the Closing Date is being effected hereby but merely an
amendment and restatement in accordance with the terms
hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE , in
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth
herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement in its
entirety as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS AND
CONSTRUCTION.
1.1 Definitions
. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings
specified therefor on Schedule 1.1.
1.2 Accounting
Terms . All accounting terms not specifically defined
herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. When used
herein, the term “financial statements” shall include
the notes and schedules thereto. Whenever the term
“Borrowers” or the term “Parent” is used in
respect of a financial covenant or a related definition, it shall
be understood to mean Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
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1.3 Code . Any
terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the Code shall be
construed and defined as set forth in the Code unless otherwise
defined herein, provided , however , that to the
extent that the Code is used to define any term herein and such
term is defined differently in different Articles of the Code, the
definition of such term contained in Article 9 of the Code shall
govern.
1.4
Construction . Unless the context of this Agreement or
any other Loan Document clearly requires otherwise, references to
the plural include the singular, references to the singular include
the plural, the terms “includes” and
“including” are not limiting, and the term
“or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the
inclusive meaning represented by the phrase “and/or.”
The words “hereof,” “herein,”
“hereby,” “hereunder,” and similar terms in
this Agreement or any other Loan Document refer to this Agreement
or such other Loan Document, as the case may be, as a whole and not
to any particular provision of this Agreement or such other Loan
Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause,
schedule, and exhibit references herein are to this Agreement
unless otherwise specified. Any reference in this Agreement or in
the other Loan Documents to any agreement, instrument, or document
shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions,
modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and
supplements, thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any
restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions,
modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and
supplements set forth herein). Any reference herein or in any other
Loan Document to the satisfaction or repayment in full of the
Obligations shall mean the repayment in full in cash (or cash
collateralization in accordance with the terms hereof) of all
Obligations other than contingent indemnification Obligations and
other than any Bank Product Obligations that, at such time, are
allowed by the applicable Bank Product Provider to remain
outstanding and that are not required by the provisions of this
Agreement to be repaid or cash collateralized. Any reference herein
to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors and assigns. Any requirement of a writing contained
herein or in the other Loan Documents shall be satisfied by the
transmission of a Record.
1.5 Schedules and
Exhibits . All of the schedules and exhibits attached to
this Agreement shall be deemed incorporated herein by
reference.
2. LOAN AND TERMS OF
PAYMENT.
2.1 Revolver
Advances .
(a) Subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, and during the term of this
Agreement, each Lender with a Revolver Commitment agrees
(severally, not jointly or jointly and severally) to make advances
(“ Advances ”) to Borrowers in an amount at any
one time outstanding not to exceed such Lender’s Pro Rata
Share of an amount equal to, as of any date of
determination, the difference of: (A) the lesser of:
(i) the EBITDA Revolver Limiter or (ii) the Maximum
Revolver Amount minus (B) the sum of: (1) Letter of
Credit Usage at such time, (2) the Bank Product Reserve, and
(3) the aggregate amount of reserves, if any, established by
Agent under Section 2.1(b) .
(b) Anything to the contrary
in this Section 2.1 notwithstanding, Agent shall have
the right to establish reserves in such amounts, and with respect
to such matters, as Agent in its Permitted Discretion shall deem
necessary or appropriate, against the Maximum Revolver Amount,
including reserves (i) with respect to (A) sums that
Borrowers are required to pay by any Section of this Agreement or
any other Loan Document (such as taxes, assessments, insurance
premiums, or, in the case of leased assets, rents or other amounts
payable under such leases) and have failed to pay, and
(B) amounts due and owing by Borrowers to any Person to the
extent secured by a Lien on, or trust over, any of the Collateral
(other than a Permitted Lien), which Lien or trust, in the
Permitted Discretion of Agent likely would have a priority superior
to the Agent’s Liens (such as Liens or trusts in favor of
landlords, warehousemen, carriers, mechanics, materialmen,
laborers,
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or suppliers, or Liens or trusts for ad
valorem, excise, sales, or other taxes where given priority under
applicable law) in and to such item of the Collateral, and
(ii) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default, with respect to such other matters as Agent in
its Permitted Discretion shall deem necessary or
appropriate.
(c) Amounts borrowed pursuant
to this Section 2.1 may be repaid and, subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, reborrowed at any time
during the term of this Agreement. The outstanding principal amount
of the Advances, together with interest accrued thereon, shall be
due and payable on the Maturity Date or, if earlier, on the date on
which they are declared due and payable pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement.
2.2 Term Loan
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(a) Subject to and upon the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Lender with a Term
Loan Commitment agrees (severally, not jointly or jointly and
severally) to make one or more term loans (collectively, all such
term loans by all such Lenders, the “ Term Loan
”) to Borrowers in an aggregate principal amount equal to
such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Term Loan Amount. The
Term Loan may be made pursuant to 2 or more draws by the Borrowers
(each a “ Term Loan Draw ”). The first Term Loan
Draw shall be funded on the Closing Date and shall be in a minimum
amount of $75,000,000. Borrowers may request additional Term Loan
Draws at any time after the Closing Date through and including
June 30, 2007. The aggregate outstanding amount of all Term
Loan Draws shall not exceed the Term Loan Amount. The maximum
amount of any Term Loan Draw may not exceed, when funded, the Term
Loan Availability on such date. Each Term Loan Draw shall be in a
minimum amount of $10,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in
excess thereof, or the remaining unfunded amount of the Term
Loan.
(b) Commencing on
July 1, 2007 and continuing on the first day of each calendar
quarter thereafter through the Maturity Date, Borrowers shall repay
the Term Loan in an amount equal to the quotient obtained by
dividing (a) the outstanding principal balance of the Term
Loan as of the end of business on June 30, 2007 by
(b) 28. The outstanding unpaid principal balance and all
accrued and unpaid interest on the Term Loan shall be due and
payable on the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date,
(ii) the date of the acceleration of the Term Loan in
accordance with the terms hereof, and (iii) the date of
termination of this Agreement pursuant to
Section 8.1(c) . All principal of, interest on, and
other amounts payable in respect of the Term Loan shall constitute
Obligations.
(c) Borrowers may make
voluntary prepayments of principal with respect to the Term Loan
from time to time so long as: (i) Administrative Borrower
provides Agent not less than 3 Business Days prior written notice
of such prepayment, and (ii) the amount of any prepayment is
in a minimum amount of $100,000 and integral multiples thereof, or
the remaining principal balance of the Term Loan, if less. Any such
voluntary prepayments shall be applied to installments due
thereunder in the inverse order of their maturity. Amounts repaid
under the Term Loan may not be reborrowed.
2.3 Borrowing
Procedures and Settlements .
(a) Procedure for
Borrowing . Each Borrowing shall be made by an irrevocable
written request by an Authorized Person delivered to Agent (the
“ Borrowing Notice ”). With respect to
Borrowings constituting Advances, unless Swing Lender is not
obligated to make a Swing Loan pursuant to
Section 2.3(b) , such Borrowing Notice must be received
by Agent no later than 10:00 a.m. (California time) on the Business
Day that is the requested Funding Date; provided ,
however , that if Swing Lender is not obligated to make a
Swing Loan as to a requested Borrowing constituting and Advance,
such Borrowing Notice must be received by Agent no later than 10:00
a.m. (California time) on the Business Day prior to the date that
is the requested Funding Date. With respect to Borrowings
constituting Term Loan Draws, the Borrowing Notice must be received
by Agent no later than 10:00 a.m. (California time) on
the
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Business Day that is 10 days prior to
the requested Funding Date. Every Borrowing Notice must specify:
(i) the type of Borrowing (Advances or Term Loan Draw),
(ii) the amount of such Borrowing, and (iii) the
requested Funding Date, which shall be a Business Day. At
Agent’s election, solely with respect to Borrowings
constituting Advances, in lieu of delivering the Borrowing Notice,
any Authorized Person may give Agent telephonic notice of such
request by the required time. In such circumstances, Borrowers
agree that any such telephonic notice will be confirmed with a
Borrowing Notice within 24 hours of the giving of such telephonic
notice, but the failure to provide such Borrowing Notice as
confirmation shall not affect the validity of the
request.
(b) Making of Swing
Loans . In the case of a request for an Advance and so long
as either (i) the aggregate amount of Swing Loans made since
the last Settlement Date plus the amount of the requested Advance
does not exceed $15,000,000, or (ii) Swing Lender, in its sole
discretion, shall agree to make a Swing Loan notwithstanding the
foregoing limitation, Swing Lender, as a Lender, shall make an
Advance in the amount of such requested Advance (any such Advance
made solely by Swing Lender as a Lender pursuant to this
Section 2.3(b) being referred to as a “ Swing
Loan ” and such Advances being referred to collectively
as “ Swing Loans ”) available to Borrowers on
the Funding Date applicable thereto by transferring immediately
available funds to Borrowers’ Designated Account. Each Swing
Loan shall be deemed to be an Advance hereunder and shall be
subject to all the terms and conditions applicable to other
Advances, except that all payments on any Swing Loan shall be
payable to Swing Lender as a Lender solely for its own account.
Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3(d)(ii) , Swing
Lender as a Lender shall not make and shall not be obligated to
make any Swing Loan if Swing Lender has actual knowledge that
(i) one or more of the applicable conditions precedent set
forth in Section 3 will not be satisfied on the
requested Funding Date for the applicable Borrowing, or
(ii) the requested Borrowing would exceed the Availability on
such Funding Date. Swing Lender as a Lender shall not otherwise be
required to determine whether the applicable conditions precedent
set forth in Section 3 have been satisfied on the
Funding Date applicable thereto prior to making any Swing Loan. The
Swing Loans shall be secured by the Agent’s Liens, constitute
Obligations hereunder, and bear interest at the rate applicable
from time to time to Advances.
(c) Making of
Loans .
(i) In the event that Swing
Lender is not obligated to make a Swing Loan, then promptly after
receipt of a request for a Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.3(a) , Agent shall notify the Lenders, not
later than 1:00 p.m. (California time) on the Business Day:
(i) immediately preceding the Funding Date applicable thereto,
with respect to Borrowings constituting Advances, and
(ii) that is 10 days prior to the requested Funding Date, with
respect to Borrowings constituting Term Loan Draws. Such notice may
be made by telecopy, telephone, or other similar form of
transmission. Each Lender shall make the amount of such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the requested Borrowing available
to Agent in immediately available funds, to Agent’s Account,
not later than 10:00 a.m. (California time) on the Funding Date
applicable thereto. After Agent’s receipt of the proceeds of
such Advances, Agent shall make the proceeds thereof available to
Administrative Borrower on the applicable Funding Date by
transferring immediately available funds equal to such proceeds
received by Agent to Administrative Borrower’s Designated
Account; provided , however , that, subject to the
provisions of Section 2.3(d)(ii) , Agent shall not
request any Lender to make, and no Lender shall have the obligation
to make, any Advance or Term Loan Draw if Agent shall have actual
knowledge that (1) one or more of the applicable conditions
precedent set forth in Section 3 will not be satisfied
on the requested Funding Date for the applicable Borrowing unless
such condition has been waived, or (2) the requested Borrowing
would exceed the Availability or the Term Loan Availability, as
applicable, on such Funding Date.
(ii) Unless Agent receives
notice from a Lender prior to 9:00 a.m. (California time) on the
date of a Borrowing, that such Lender will not make available as
and when required hereunder to Agent for the account of Borrowers
the amount of that Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Borrowing,
Agent may assume that each Lender has made or will make such amount
available to Agent in immediately
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available funds on the Funding Date and
Agent may (but shall not be so required), in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to Borrowers on such date a
corresponding amount. If and to the extent any Lender shall not
have made its full amount available to Agent in immediately
available funds and Agent in such circumstances has made available
to Borrowers such amount, that Lender shall on the Business Day
following such Funding Date make such amount available to Agent,
together with interest at the Defaulting Lender Rate for each day
during such period. A notice submitted by Agent to any Lender with
respect to amounts owing under this subsection shall be conclusive,
absent manifest error. If such amount is so made available, such
payment to Agent shall constitute such Lender’s Advance or
Term Loan Draw, as applicable, on the date of Borrowing for all
purposes of this Agreement. If such amount is not made available to
Agent on the Business Day following the Funding Date, Agent will
notify Administrative Borrower of such failure to fund and, upon
demand by Agent, Borrowers shall pay such amount to Agent for
Agent’s account, together with interest thereon for each day
elapsed since the date of such Borrowing, at a rate per annum equal
to the interest rate applicable at the time to the Advances or Term
Loan Draws, as applicable, composing such Borrowing. The failure of
any Lender to make any Advance or Term Loan Draw, as applicable, on
any Funding Date shall not relieve any other Lender of any
obligation hereunder to make an Advance or Term Loan Draw, as
applicable, on such Funding Date, but no Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance
or Term Loan Draw, as applicable, to be made by such other Lender
on any Funding Date.
(iii) Agent shall not be
obligated to transfer to a Defaulting Lender any payments made by
Borrowers to Agent for the Defaulting Lender’s benefit, and,
in the absence of such transfer to the Defaulting Lender, Agent
shall transfer any such payments to each other non-Defaulting
Lender member of the Lender Group ratably in accordance with their
Commitments (but only to the extent that such Defaulting
Lender’s Advance or Term Loan Draw, as applicable, was funded
by the other members of the Lender Group) or, if so directed by
Administrative Borrower and if no Default or Event of Default had
occurred and is continuing (and to the extent such Defaulting
Lender’s Advance or Term Loan Draw, as applicable, was not
funded by the Lender Group), retain same to be re-advanced to
Borrowers as if such Defaulting Lender had made to Borrowers
Advances or Term Loan Draws, as applicable. Subject to the
foregoing, Agent may hold and, in its Permitted Discretion, re-lend
to Borrowers for the account of such Defaulting Lender the amount
of all such payments received and retained by Agent for the account
of such Defaulting Lender. Solely for the purposes of voting or
consenting to matters with respect to the Loan Documents, such
Defaulting Lender shall be deemed not to be a “Lender”
and such Lender’s Commitment shall be deemed to be zero. This
Section shall remain effective with respect to such Lender until
(x) the Obligations under this Agreement shall have been
declared or shall have become immediately due and payable,
(y) the non-Defaulting Lenders, Agent, and Administrative
Borrower shall have waived such Defaulting Lender’s default
in writing, or (z) the Defaulting Lender makes its Pro Rata
Share of the applicable Advance or Term Loan Draw, as applicable,
and pays to Agent all amounts owing by Defaulting Lender in respect
thereof. The operation of this Section shall not be construed to
increase or otherwise affect the Commitment of any Lender, to
relieve or excuse the performance by such Defaulting Lender or any
other Lender of its duties and obligations hereunder, or to relieve
or excuse the performance by Borrowers of their duties and
obligations hereunder to Agent or to the Lenders other than such
Defaulting Lender. Any such failure to fund by any Defaulting
Lender shall constitute a material breach by such Defaulting Lender
of this Agreement and shall entitle Administrative Borrower at its
option, upon written notice to Agent, to arrange for a substitute
Lender to assume the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender, such
substitute Lender to be an Eligible Transferee. In connection with
the arrangement of such a substitute Lender, the Defaulting Lender
shall have no right to refuse to be replaced hereunder, and agrees
to execute and deliver a completed form of Assignment and
Acceptance in favor of the substitute Lender (and agrees that it
shall be deemed to have executed and delivered such document if it
fails to do so) and shall cease to be party hereto, subject only to
being repaid its share of the outstanding Obligations (other than
Bank Product Obligations) without any premium or penalty of any
kind whatsoever; provided however, that any such assumption of the
Commitment of such Defaulting Lender shall not be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any of the Lender Groups’ or
Borrowers’ rights or remedies against any such Defaulting
Lender arising out of or in relation to such failure to
fund.
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(d) Protective Advances
and Optional Overadvances .
(i) Agent hereby is
authorized by Borrowers and the Lenders, from time to time in
Agent’s sole discretion, (A) after the occurrence and
during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, or
(B) at any time that any of the other applicable conditions
precedent set forth in Section 3 are not satisfied, to
make Advances to Borrowers on behalf of the Lenders that Agent, in
its Permitted Discretion deems necessary or desirable (1) to
preserve or protect the Collateral, or any portion thereof,
(2) to enhance the likelihood of repayment of the Obligations
(other than the Bank Product Obligations), or (3) to pay any
other amount chargeable to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, including Lender Group Expenses and the costs, fees, and
expenses described in Section 10 (any of the Advances
described in this Section 2.3(d)(i) shall be referred
to as “ Protective Advances ”). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the aggregate
amount of Protective Advances and Overadvances outstanding under
this Agreement shall not exceed, at any one time,
$7,500,000.
(ii) Any contrary provision
of this Agreement notwithstanding, subject to the last sentence of
clause (d)(i) above, the Lenders hereby authorize Agent or Swing
Lender, as applicable, and either Agent or Swing Lender, as
applicable, may, but is not obligated to, knowingly and
intentionally, continue to make Advances (including Swing Loans) to
Borrowers notwithstanding that an Overadvance exists or thereby
would be created, so long as after giving effect to such Advances,
the outstanding Revolver Usage (except for and excluding amounts
charged to the Loan Account for interest, fees, or Lender Group
Expenses) does not exceed the Maximum Revolver Amount. In the event
Agent obtains actual knowledge that the Revolver Usage exceeds the
amounts permitted by the immediately foregoing provisions,
regardless of the amount of, or reason for, such excess, Agent
shall notify the Lenders as soon as practicable (and prior to
making any (or any additional) intentional Overadvances (except for
and excluding amounts charged to the Loan Account for interest,
fees, or Lender Group Expenses) unless Agent determines that prior
notice would result in imminent harm to the Collateral or its
value), and the Lenders with Revolver Commitments thereupon shall,
together with Agent, jointly determine the terms of arrangements
that shall be implemented with Borrowers intended to reduce, within
a reasonable time, the outstanding principal amount of the Advances
to Borrowers to an amount permitted by the preceding paragraph. In
such circumstances, if any Lender with a Revolver Commitment
disagrees over the proposed terms of reduction or repayment of any
Overadvance, the terms of reduction or repayment thereof shall be
implemented according to the determination of the Required Lenders.
Each Lender with a Revolver Commitment shall be obligated to settle
with Agent as provided in Section 2.3(e) for the amount
of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any unintentional
Overadvances by Agent reported to such Lender, any intentional
Overadvances made as permitted under this
Section 2.3(d)(ii) , and any Overadvances resulting
from the charging to the Loan Account of interest, fees, or Lender
Group Expenses.
(iii) Each Protective Advance
and each Overadvance shall be deemed to be an Advance hereunder,
except that no Protective Advance or Overadvance shall be eligible
to be a LIBOR Rate Loan and all payments on the Protective Advances
shall be payable to Agent solely for its own account. The
Protective Advances and Overadvances shall be repayable on demand,
secured by the Agent’s Liens, constitute Obligations
hereunder, and bear interest at the rate applicable from time to
time to Advances. The provisions of this Section 2.3(d)
are for the exclusive benefit of Agent, Swing Lender, and the
Lenders and are not intended to benefit any Borrower in any
way.
(e) Settlement
. It is agreed that each Lender’s funded portion of the
Advances is intended by the Lenders to equal, at all times, such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Advances. Such
agreement notwithstanding, Agent, Swing Lender, and the other
Lenders agree (which agreement shall not be for the benefit of any
Borrower) that in order to facilitate the administration of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, settlement among the
Lenders as to the Advances, the Swing Loans, and the Protective
Advances shall take place on a periodic basis in accordance with
the following provisions:
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(i) Agent shall request
settlement (“ Settlement ”) with the Lenders on
a weekly basis, or on a more frequent basis if so determined by
Agent, (1) on behalf of Swing Lender, with respect to each
outstanding Swing Loan, (2) for itself, with respect to the
outstanding Protective Advances, and (3) with respect to
Borrowers’ Collections received, as to each by notifying the
Lenders by telecopy, telephone, or other similar form of
transmission, of such requested Settlement, no later than 2:00 p.m.
(California time) on the Business Day immediately prior to the date
of such requested Settlement (the date of such requested Settlement
being the “ Settlement Date ”). Such notice of a
Settlement Date shall include a summary statement of the amount of
outstanding Advances, Swing Loans, and Protective Advances for the
period since the prior Settlement Date. Subject to the terms and
conditions contained herein (including
Section 2.3(b)(iii) ): (y) if a Lender’s
balance of the Advances (including Swing Loans and Protective
Advances) exceeds such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the
Advances (including Swing Loans and Protective Advances) as of a
Settlement Date, then Agent shall, by no later than 12:00 p.m.
(California time) on the Settlement Date, transfer in immediately
available funds to a Deposit Account of such Lender (as such Lender
may designate), an amount such that each such Lender shall, upon
receipt of such amount, have as of the Settlement Date, its Pro
Rata Share of the Advances (including Swing Loans and Protective
Advances), and (z) if a Lender’s balance of the Advances
(including Swing Loans and Protective Advances) is less than such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Advances (including Swing
Loans and Protective Advances) as of a Settlement Date, such Lender
shall no later than 12:00 p.m. (California time) on the Settlement
Date transfer in immediately available funds to the Agent’s
Account, an amount such that each such Lender shall, upon transfer
of such amount, have as of the Settlement Date, its Pro Rata Share
of the Advances (including Swing Loans and Protective Advances).
Such amounts made available to Agent under clause (z) of the
immediately preceding sentence shall be applied against the amounts
of the applicable Swing Loans or Protective Advances and, together
with the portion of such Swing Loans or Protective Advances
representing Swing Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof, shall
constitute Advances of such Lenders. If any such amount is not made
available to Agent by any Lender on the Settlement Date applicable
thereto to the extent required by the terms hereof, Agent shall be
entitled to recover for its account such amount on demand from such
Lender together with interest thereon at the Defaulting Lender
Rate.
(ii) In determining whether a
Lender’s balance of the Advances, Swing Loans, and Protective
Advances is less than, equal to, or greater than such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Advances, Swing Loans, and
Protective Advances as of a Settlement Date, Agent shall, as part
of the relevant Settlement, apply to such balance the portion of
payments actually received in good funds by Agent with respect to
principal, interest, fees payable by Borrowers and allocable to the
Lenders hereunder, and proceeds of Collateral. To the extent that a
net amount is owed to any such Lender after such application, such
net amount shall be distributed by Agent to that Lender as part of
such next Settlement.
(iii) Between Settlement
Dates, Agent, to the extent no Protective Advances or Swing Loans
are outstanding, may pay over to Swing Lender any payments received
by Agent, that in accordance with the terms of this Agreement would
be applied to the reduction of the Advances, for application to
Swing Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Advances. If, as of any
Settlement Date, Collections of Borrowers received since the then
immediately preceding Settlement Date have been applied to Swing
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Advances other than to Swing
Loans, as provided for in the previous sentence, Swing Lender shall
pay to Agent for the accounts of the Lenders, and Agent shall pay
to the Lenders, to be applied to the outstanding Advances of such
Lenders, an amount such that each Lender shall, upon receipt of
such amount, have, as of such Settlement Date, its Pro Rata Share
of the Advances. During the period between Settlement Dates, Swing
Lender with respect to Swing Loans, Agent with respect to
Protective Advances, and each Lender (subject to the effect of
agreements between Agent and individual Lenders) with respect to
the Advances other than Swing Loans and Protective Advances, shall
be entitled to interest at the applicable rate or rates payable
under this Agreement on the daily amount of funds employed by Swing
Lender, Agent, or the Lenders, as applicable.
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(f) Notation .
Agent shall record on its books the principal amount of the
Advances owing to each Lender, including the Swing Loans owing to
Swing Lender, and Protective Advances owing to Agent, and the
interests therein of each Lender, from time to time and such
records shall, absent manifest error, conclusively be presumed to
be correct and accurate.
(g) Lenders’
Failure to Perform . All Advances (other than Swing Loans
and Protective Advances) shall be made by the Lenders
contemporaneously and in accordance with their Pro Rata Shares. It
is understood that (i) no Lender shall be responsible for any
failure by any other Lender to perform its obligation to make any
Advance (or other extension of credit) hereunder, nor shall any
Commitment of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of
any failure by any other Lender to perform its obligations
hereunder, and (ii) no failure by any Lender to perform its
obligations hereunder shall excuse any other Lender from its
obligations hereunder.
2.4 Payments
.
(a) Payments by
Borrowers .
(i) Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, all payments by Borrowers shall be made
to Agent’s Account for the account of the Lender Group and
shall be made in immediately available funds, no later than 11:00
a.m. (California time) on the date specified herein. Any payment
received by Agent later than 11:00 a.m. (California time), shall be
deemed to have been received on the following Business Day and any
applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue until such
following Business Day.
(ii) Unless Agent receives
notice from Administrative Borrower prior to the date on which any
payment is due to the Lenders that Borrowers will not make such
payment in full as and when required, Agent may assume that
Borrowers have made (or will make) such payment in full to Agent on
such date in immediately available funds and Agent may (but shall
not be so required), in reliance upon such assumption, distribute
to each Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount then
due such Lender. If and to the extent Borrowers do not make such
payment in full to Agent on the date when due, each Lender
severally shall repay to Agent on demand such amount distributed to
such Lender, together with interest thereon at the Defaulting
Lender Rate for each day from the date such amount is distributed
to such Lender until the date repaid.
(b) Apportionment and
Application .
(i) So long as no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing and except as otherwise
provided with respect to Defaulting Lenders, all principal and
interest payments shall be apportioned ratably among the Lenders
(according to the unpaid principal balance of the Obligations to
which such payments relate held by each Lender) and all payments of
fees and expenses (other than fees or expenses that are for
Agent’s separate account) shall be apportioned ratably among
the Lenders having a Pro Rata Share of the type of Commitment or
Obligation to which a particular fee or expense relates. All
payments to be made hereunder by Borrowers shall be remitted to
Agent and all (subject to Section 2.4(b)(iv) ) such
payments, and all proceeds of Collateral received by Agent, shall
be applied, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, to reduce the balance of the Advances outstanding and,
thereafter, to Borrowers (to be wired to the Designated Account) or
such other Person entitled thereto under applicable law.
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(ii) At any time that an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and except as
otherwise provided with respect to Defaulting Lenders, all payments
remitted to Agent and all proceeds of Collateral received by Agent
shall be applied as follows:
(A) first , to pay any
Lender Group Expenses (including cost or expense reimbursements) or
indemnities then due to Agent under the Loan Documents, until paid
in full,
(B) second , to pay
any fees or premiums then due to Agent under the Loan Documents
until paid in full,
(C) third , to pay
interest due in respect of all Protective Advances until paid in
full,
(D) fourth , to pay
the principal of all Protective Advances until paid in
full,
(E) fifth , ratably to
pay any Lender Group Expenses (including cost or expense
reimbursements) or indemnities then due to any of the Lenders under
the Loan Documents, until paid in full,
(F) sixth , ratably to
pay any fees or premiums then due to any of the Lenders under the
Loan Documents until paid in full,
(G) seventh , ratably
to pay interest due in respect of the Advances (other than
Protective Advances), the Swing Loans, and the Term Loan until paid
in full,
(H) eighth , ratably
(i) to pay the principal of all Swing Loans until paid in
full, (ii) to pay the outstanding principal balance of the
Term Loan (in the inverse order of the maturity of the installments
due thereunder) until the Term Loan is paid in full, (iii) to
pay the principal of all Advances until paid in full, (iv) to
Agent, to be held by Agent, for the ratable benefit of Issuing
Lender and those Lenders having a Revolver Commitment, as cash
collateral in an amount up to 105% of the Letter of Credit Usage,
and (v) to Agent, to be held by Agent, for the benefit of the
Bank Product Providers, as cash collateral in an amount up to the
amount of the Bank Product Reserve established prior to the
occurrence of, and not in contemplation of, the subject Event of
Default,
(I) ninth , to pay any
other Obligations (including the provision of amounts to Agent, to
be held by Agent, for the benefit of the Bank Product Providers, as
cash collateral in an amount up to the amount determined by Agent
in its Permitted Discretion as the amount necessary to secure
Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ obligations in
respect of Bank Products), and
(J) tenth , to
Borrowers (to be wired to the Designated Account) or such other
Person entitled thereto under applicable law.
(iii) Agent promptly shall
distribute to each Lender, pursuant to the applicable wire
instructions received from each Lender in writing, such funds as it
may be entitled to receive, subject to a Settlement delay as
provided in Section 2.3(e) .
(iv) In each instance, so
long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
Section 2.4(b)(i) shall not apply to any payment made
by Borrowers to Agent and specified by Borrowers to be for the
payment of specific Obligations then due and payable (or
prepayable) under any provision of this Agreement.
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(v) For purposes of
Section 2.4(b)(ii) , “paid in full” means
payment of all amounts owing under the Loan Documents according to
the terms thereof, including loan fees, service fees, professional
fees, interest (and specifically including interest accrued after
the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding), default interest,
interest on interest, and expense reimbursements, whether or not
any of the foregoing would be or is allowed or disallowed in whole
or in part in any Insolvency Proceeding.
(vi) In the event of a direct
conflict between the priority provisions of this
Section 2.4 and any other provision contained in any
other Loan Document, it is the intention of the parties hereto that
such provisions be read together and construed, to the fullest
extent possible, to be in concert with each other. In the event of
any actual, irreconcilable conflict that cannot be resolved as
aforesaid, the terms and provisions of this Section 2.4
shall control and govern.
(c) Mandatory
Prepayments .
(i) If, at any time
(A) the sum of the outstanding principal balance of the Term
Loan on such date plus the Revolver Usage on such date exceeds
(B) the product of (I) the Applicable EBITDA Multiplier
times (II) TTM EBITDA calculated as of the most recent month for
which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to
Section 5.3 (such product being referred to as the
“ Loan Limit ” and such excess being referred to
as the “ Limiter Excess ”), then Borrowers
shall, prepay the Obligations in accordance with
Section 2.4(d) in an aggregate amount equal to the
Limiter Excess immediately after the earlier of: (i) obtaining
knowledge that the Obligations have exceeded the Loan Limit or
(ii) receiving notice from Agent that the Obligations have
exceeded the Loan Limit.
(ii) Immediately upon the
receipt by Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries of the proceeds
of any voluntary or involuntary sale or disposition by Borrowers or
any of their Subsidiaries of property or assets (including casualty
losses or condemnations but excluding: (y) sales or
dispositions which qualify as Permitted Dispositions under clauses
(a), (b), (c), (d), or (f) of the definition of Permitted
Dispositions and (z) proceeds from sale-leaseback transactions
in an amount that does not exceed $3,000,000 in the aggregate in
any one fiscal year of Parent), Borrowers shall prepay the
outstanding principal amount of the Obligations in accordance with
Section 2.4(d) in an amount equal to 100% of the Net
Cash Proceeds (including condemnation awards and payments in lieu
thereof) received by such Person in connection with such sales or
dispositions; provided that so long as (A) no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and is continuing,
(B) Administrative Borrower shall have given Agent prior
written notice of Borrowers’ intention to apply such monies
to the costs of replacement of the properties or assets that are
the subject of such sale or disposition or the cost of purchase or
construction of other assets useful in the business of Borrowers or
their Subsidiaries, (C) the monies are held in a cash
collateral account in which Agent has a perfected first-priority
security interest, (D) Borrowers or their Subsidiaries, as
applicable, complete such replacement, purchase, or construction
within 180 days after the initial receipt of such monies, and
(E) the aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds that are
reinvested in any 12 consecutive month period does not exceed
$1,000,000, Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall have the option
to apply such monies to the costs of replacement of the property or
assets that are the subject of such sale or disposition or the
costs of purchase or construction of other assets useful in the
business of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries unless and to the
extent that such applicable period shall have expired without such
replacement, purchase or construction being made or completed, or
an Event of Default shall have occurred, in which case, any amounts
remaining in the cash collateral account shall be paid to Agent and
applied in accordance with Section 2.4(d) . Nothing
contained in this Section 2.4(c)(ii) shall permit
Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries to sell or otherwise dispose
of any property or assets other than in accordance with
Section 6.4 .
(iii) Immediately upon the
receipt by Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries of any
Extraordinary Receipts (other than indemnification payments
received in connection with the Merger Agreement or any other
merger or stock purchase agreement with respect to a Permitted
Acquisition to the extent that such Extraordinary Receipts are paid
to a Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent
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or any of its Subsidiaries or received
by Parent or such Subsidiary as reimbursement for any payment
previously made by such Person), Borrowers shall prepay the
outstanding principal amount of the Obligations in accordance with
Section 2.4(d) in an amount equal to 100% of such
Extraordinary Receipts, net of any reasonable expenses incurred in
collecting such Extraordinary Receipts.
(iv) Immediately upon the
issuance or incurrence by Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries of
any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness permitted under
Section 6.1(a) , (c) , (d) , (i) ,
(k) , or (l) ), the issuance by Borrowers or any of
their Subsidiaries of any shares of Borrowers’ Stock or their
Subsidiaries’ Stock (other than: (y) in the event that
Borrowers or any of Subsidiary of a Borrower forms a Subsidiary in
accordance with the terms hereof, the issuance by such Subsidiary
of Stock to a Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable or
(z) the issuance of Parent’s Stock in the ordinary
course of any Active Borrower’s business, consistent with
such Active Borrower’s or Parent’s past practice, to
such Active Borrower’s employees and service providers),
Borrowers shall prepay the outstanding principal amount of the
Obligations in accordance with Section 2.4(d) in an
amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds received by such
Person in connection with such issuance or incurrence. The
provisions of this Section 2.4(c)(iv) shall not be
deemed to be implied consent to any such issuance or incurrence
otherwise prohibited by the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
(d) Application of
Payments . Each prepayment pursuant to
Section 2.4(c) above shall (A) so long as no Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, first, to the
outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan until paid in full,
second, to the outstanding principal amount of the Advances until
paid in full, and (B) if an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, be applied in the manner set forth in
Section 2.4(b)(ii) . Each such prepayment of the Term
Loan shall be applied against the remaining installments of
principal of the Term Loan in the inverse order of
maturity.
2.5
Overadvances . If, at any time or for any reason, the
amount of Obligations owed by Borrowers to the Lender Group
pursuant to Section 2.1 or Section 2.12 is
greater than any of the limitations set forth in
Section 2.1 , or Section 2.12 , as
applicable (an “ Overadvance ”), Borrowers
immediately shall pay to Agent, in cash, the amount of such excess
which amount shall be used by Agent to reduce the Obligations in
accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 2.4(b) , provided , however ,
that: (i) any intentional Overadvance described in
Section 2.3(d)(ii) shall be repaid in accordance with
the terms agreed upon by the Lenders pursuant to the terms of that
Section and (ii) the amount of Advances that exceed the EBITDA
Revolver Limiter shall be repaid in accordance with
Section 2.4(d) . In addition, Borrowers hereby promise
to pay the Obligations (including principal, interest, fees, costs,
and expenses) in Dollars in full as and when due and payable under
the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
2.6 Interest Rates:
Rates, Payments, and Calculations .
(a) Interest
Rates . Except as provided in clause (c) below, all
Obligations (except for Bank Product Obligations) whether or not
charged to the Loan Account pursuant to the terms hereof shall bear
interest on the Daily Balance thereof as follows (i) if the
relevant Obligation is a LIBOR Rate Loan, at a per annum rate equal
to the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin for LIBOR Rate Loans,
and (ii) otherwise, at a per annum rate equal to the Base Rate
plus the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans.
The foregoing
notwithstanding, at no time shall any portion of the Obligations
(other than Bank Product Obligations) bear interest on the Daily
Balance thereof at a per annum rate less than 5.00%. To the extent
that interest accrued hereunder at the rate set forth herein would
be less than the foregoing minimum daily rate, the interest rate
chargeable hereunder for such day automatically shall be deemed
increased to the minimum rate.
(b) Letter of Credit
Fee . Borrowers shall pay Agent (for the ratable benefit of
the Lenders with a Revolver Commitment, subject to any agreements
between Agent and individual Lenders),
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a Letter of Credit fee (in addition to
the charges, commissions, fees, and costs set forth in
Section 2.12(e) ) which shall accrue at a rate per
annum equal to the Applicable Margin with respect to LIBOR Rate
Loans times the Daily Balance of the undrawn amount of all
outstanding Letters of Credit.
(c) Default
Rate . Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of
an Event of Default (and at the election of Agent or the Required
Lenders), all Obligations (except for Bank Product Obligations)
that have been charged to the Loan Account pursuant to the terms
hereof shall bear interest on the Daily Balance thereof at a per
annum rate equal to 4 percentage points above the per annum rate
otherwise applicable hereunder, and
(d) Payment .
Except as provided to the contrary in Section 2.11 or
Section 2.13(a) , interest, Letter of Credit fees, and
all other fees payable hereunder shall be due and payable, in
arrears, on the first day of each month at any time that
Obligations or Commitments are outstanding. Borrowers hereby
authorize Agent, from time to time, without prior notice to
Borrowers, to charge all interest and fees (when due and payable),
all Lender Group Expenses (as and when incurred), all charges,
commissions, fees and costs provided for in
Section 2.12(e) (as and when accrued or incurred), all
fees and costs provided for in Section 2.11 (as and
when accrued or incurred), and all other payments as and when due
and payable under any Loan Document (including the amounts due and
payable with respect to the Term Loan and including any amounts due
and payable to the Bank Product Providers in respect of Bank
Products up to the amount of the Bank Product Reserve) to
Borrowers’ Loan Account, which amounts thereafter shall
constitute Advances hereunder and shall accrue interest at the rate
then applicable to Advances that are Base Rate Loans. Any interest
not paid when due shall be compounded by being charged to the Loan
Account and shall thereafter constitute Advances hereunder and
shall accrue interest at the rate then applicable to Advances that
are Base Rate Loans.
(e) Computation
. All interest and fees chargeable under the Loan Documents shall
be computed on the basis of a 360 day year for the actual number of
days elapsed. In the event the Base Rate is changed from time to
time hereafter, the rates of interest hereunder based upon the Base
Rate automatically and immediately shall be increased or decreased
by an amount equal to such change in the Base Rate.
(f) Intent to Limit
Charges to Maximum Lawful Rate . In no event shall the
interest rate or rates payable under this Agreement, plus any other
amounts paid in connection herewith, exceed the highest rate
permissible under any law that a court of competent jurisdiction
shall, in a final determination, deem applicable. Borrowers and the
Lender Group, in executing and delivering this Agreement, intend
legally to agree upon the rate or rates of interest and manner of
payment stated within it; provided , however , that,
anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, if said
rate or rates of interest or manner of payment exceeds the maximum
allowable under applicable law, then, ipso facto, as of the date of
this Agreement, Borrowers are and shall be liable only for the
payment of such maximum as allowed by law, and payment received
from Borrowers in excess of such legal maximum, whenever received,
shall be applied to reduce the principal balance of the Obligations
to the extent of such excess.
2.7 Cash
Management .
(a) Borrowers shall
(i) establish and maintain cash management services of a type
and on terms satisfactory to Agent at one or more of the banks set
forth on Schedule 2.7(a) (each a “Cash Management
Bank”), and shall request in writing and otherwise take such
reasonable steps to ensure that all of the Borrowers’ Account
Debtors forward payment of the amounts owed by them directly to
such Cash Management Bank, and (ii) deposit or cause to be
deposited promptly, and in any event no later than the first
Business Day after the date of receipt thereof, all of their
Collections (including those sent directly by their Account Debtors
to Borrowers) into a bank account in Agent’s name (a
“Cash Management Account”) at one of the Cash
Management Banks.
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(b) Each Cash Management Bank
shall establish and maintain Cash Management Agreements with Agent
and the applicable Borrower, in form and substance acceptable to
Agent and Administrative Borrower. Each such Cash Management
Agreement shall provide, among other things, that (i) if Agent
has given the Cash Management Bank a notice of exclusive control
(which shall not be given prior to the occurrence of an Event of
Default), the Cash Management Bank will comply with any
instructions originated by Agent directing the disposition of the
funds in such Cash Management Account without further consent by
any Borrower, as applicable, (ii) the Cash Management Bank has
no rights of setoff or recoupment or any other claim against the
applicable Cash Management Account, other than for payment of its
service fees and other charges directly related to the
administration of such Cash Management Account and for returned
checks or other items of payment, and (iii) if Agent has a
given the Cash Management Bank a notice of exclusive control (which
shall not be given prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default),
it will forward by daily sweep all amounts in the applicable Cash
Management Account to the Agent’s Account.
(c) So long as no Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Administrative
Borrower may amend Schedule 2.7(a) to add or replace a Cash
Management Bank or Cash Management Account; provided, however, that
(i) such prospective Cash Management Bank shall be reasonably
satisfactory to Agent, and (ii) prior to the time of the
opening of such Cash Management Account, the applicable Borrower
and such prospective Cash Management Bank shall have executed and
delivered to Agent a Cash Management Agreement. The applicable
Borrower shall close any of their Cash Management Accounts (and
establish replacement cash management accounts in accordance with
the foregoing sentence) promptly and in any event within 30 days of
notice from Agent that the creditworthiness of any Cash Management
Bank is no longer acceptable in Agent’s reasonable judgment,
or as promptly as practicable and in any event within 60 days of
notice from Agent that the operating performance, funds transfer,
or availability procedures or performance of the Cash Management
Bank with respect to Cash Management Accounts or Agent’s
liability under any Cash Management Agreement with such Cash
Management Bank is no longer acceptable in Agent’s reasonable
judgment.
(d) The Cash Management
Accounts shall be cash collateral accounts subject to Control
Agreements.
2.8 Crediting
Payments . The receipt of any payment item by Agent
(whether from transfers to Agent by the Cash Management Banks
pursuant to the Cash Management Agreements or otherwise) shall not
be considered a payment on account unless such payment item is a
wire transfer of immediately available federal funds made to the
Agent’s Account or unless and until such payment item is
honored when presented for payment. Should any payment item not be
honored when presented for payment, then Borrowers shall be deemed
not to have made such payment and interest shall be calculated
accordingly. Anything to the contrary contained herein
notwithstanding, any payment item shall be deemed received by Agent
only if it is received into the Agent’s Account on a Business
Day on or before 11:00 a.m. (California time). If any payment item
is received into the Agent’s Account on a non-Business Day or
after 11:00 a.m. (California time) on a Business Day, it shall be
deemed to have been received by Agent as of the opening of business
on the immediately following Business Day. The parties acknowledge
and agree that the economic benefit of the foregoing provisions of
this Section 2.8 shall be for the exclusive benefit of
Agent.
2.9 Designated
Account . Agent is authorized to make the Advances and the
Term Loan Draws under this Agreement based upon telephonic (but
solely with respect to Advances) or other instructions received
from anyone purporting to be an Authorized Person or, without
instructions, if pursuant to Section 2.6(d) .
Administrative Borrower agrees to establish and maintain the
Designated Account with the Designated Account Bank for the purpose
of receiving the proceeds of the Advances requested by Borrowers
and made by Agent or the Lenders hereunder. Unless otherwise agreed
by Agent and Administrative Borrower, any Advance, Protective
Advance, or Swing Loan requested by Borrowers and made by Agent or
the Lenders hereunder shall be made to the Designated
Account.
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2.10 Maintenance of
Loan Account; Statements of Obligations . Agent shall
maintain an account on its books in the name of Borrowers (the
“ Loan Account ”) on which Borrowers will be
charged with the Term Loan Draws and all Advances (including
Protective Advances and Swing Loans) made by Agent, Swing Lender,
or the Lenders to Borrowers or for Borrowers’ account, the
Letters of Credit issued by Issuing Lender for Borrowers’
account, and with all other payment Obligations hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents (except for Bank Product Obligations),
including, accrued interest, fees and expenses, and Lender Group
Expenses. In accordance with Section 2.8 , the Loan
Account will be credited with all payments received by Agent from
Borrowers or for Borrowers’ account, including all amounts
received in the Agent’s Account from any Cash Management
Bank. Agent shall render statements regarding the Loan Account to
Administrative Borrower, including principal, interest, fees, and
including an itemization of all charges and expenses constituting
Lender Group Expenses owing, and such statements, absent manifest
error, shall be conclusively presumed to be correct and accurate
and constitute an account stated between Borrowers and the Lender
Group unless, within 30 days after receipt thereof by
Administrative Borrower, Administrative Borrower shall deliver to
Agent written objection thereto describing the error or errors
contained in any such statements.
2.11 Fees
.
(a) Unused Revolver
Commitment Fee . On the first day of each month prior to
the Termination Date and on the Termination Date, an unused
line fee in an amount equal to 0.30% per annum times the
result of (i) the Maximum Revolver Amount, less (ii) the
average Daily Balance of Advances that were outstanding during the
immediately preceding month, provided , however ,
that the unused line fee due on the Termination Date shall be
calculated based on the average Daily Balances during the period
from and including the first day of the month in which the
Termination Date occurs up to and including the Termination
Date.
(b) Unused Term Loan
Commitment Fee . On the first day of each month commencing
on the first Business Day of the month following the Closing Date
and continuing through July 1, 2007, an unused term loan
commitment fee in an amount equal to 0.30% per annum times the
result of (i) the Term Loan Amount, less (ii) the
outstanding balance of the Term Loan on such date.
(c) Fee Letter
Fees . In addition to the fees set forth in (a) and
(b) above, Borrowers shall pay to Agent, as and when due and
payable under the terms of the Fee Letter, the fees set forth in
the Fee Letter.
2.12 Letter of
Credit .
(a) Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Issuing Lender agrees
to issue letters of credit for the account of Borrowers (each, an
“ L/C ”) or to purchase participations or
execute indemnities or reimbursement obligations (each such
undertaking, an “ L/C Undertaking ”) with
respect to letters of credit issued by an Underlying Issuer (as of
the Closing Date, the prospective Underlying Issuer is to be Wells
Fargo) for the account of Borrowers. Each request for the issuance
of a Letter of Credit or the amendment, renewal, or extension of
any outstanding Letter of Credit, shall be made in writing by an
Authorized Person and delivered to the Issuing Lender and Agent via
hand delivery, telefacsimile, or other electronic method of
transmission reasonably in advance of the requested date of
issuance, amendment, renewal, or extension. Each such request shall
be in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuing Lender in its
Permitted Discretion and shall specify (i) the amount of such
Letter of Credit, (ii) the date of issuance, amendment,
renewal, or extension of such Letter of Credit, (iii) the
expiration date of such Letter of Credit, (iv) the name and
address of the beneficiary thereof (or the beneficiary of the
Underlying Letter of Credit, as applicable), and (v) such
other information (including, in the case of an amendment, renewal,
or extension, identification of the outstanding Letter of Credit to
be so amended, renewed, or extended) as shall be necessary to
prepare, amend, renew, or extend such Letter of Credit. If
requested by the Issuing Lender, Borrowers also
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shall be an applicant under the
application with respect to any Underlying Letter of Credit that is
to be the subject of an L/C Undertaking. The Issuing Lender shall
have no obligation to issue a Letter of Credit if any of the
following would result after giving effect to the issuance of such
requested Letter of Credit:
(i) the Letter of Credit
Usage would exceed the EBITDA Revolver Limiter less the outstanding
amount of Advances, or
(ii) the Letter of Credit
Usage would exceed $5,000,000, or
(iii) the Letter of Credit
Usage would exceed the Maximum Revolver Amount less the outstanding
amount of Advances less the Bank Product Reserve, and less the
aggregate amount of reserves, if any, established by Agent under
Section 2.1(b).
Borrowers and the Lender
Group acknowledge and agree that certain Underlying Letters of
Credit may be issued to support letters of credit that already are
outstanding as of the Closing Date. Each Letter of Credit (and
corresponding Underlying Letter of Credit) shall be in form and
substance acceptable to the Issuing Lender (in the exercise of its
Permitted Discretion), including the requirement that the amounts
payable thereunder must be payable in Dollars. If Issuing Lender is
obligated to advance funds under a Letter of Credit, Borrowers
immediately shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement to Issuing Lender
by paying to Agent an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement not
later than 11:00 a.m., California time, on the date that such L/C
Disbursement is made, if Administrative Borrower shall have
received written or telephonic notice of such L/C Disbursement
prior to 10:00 a.m., California time, on such date, or, if such
notice has not been received by Administrative Borrower prior to
such time on such date, then not later than 11:00 a.m., California
time, on the Business Day that Administrative Borrower receives
such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m.,
California time, on the date of receipt, and, in the absence of
such reimbursement, the L/C Disbursement immediately and
automatically shall be deemed to be an Advance hereunder and,
initially, shall bear interest at the rate then applicable to
Advances that are Base Rate Loans. To the extent an L/C
Disbursement is deemed to be an Advance hereunder, Borrowers’
obligation to reimburse such L/C Disbursement shall be discharged
and replaced by the resulting Advance. Promptly following receipt
by Agent of any payment from Borrowers pursuant to this paragraph,
Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Lender or, to
the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to
Section 2.12(b) to reimburse the Issuing Lender, then
to such Lenders and the Issuing Lender as their interests may
appear.
(b) Promptly following
receipt of a notice of L/C Disbursement pursuant to
Section 2.12(a), each Lender with a Revolver Commitment agrees
to fund its Pro Rata Share of any Advance deemed made pursuant to
the foregoing subsection on the same terms and conditions as if
Borrowers had requested such Advance and Agent shall promptly pay
to Issuing Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.
By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter
of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further
action on the part of the Issuing Lender or the Lenders with
Revolver Commitments, the Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have
granted to each Lender with a Revolver Commitment, and each Lender
with a Revolver Commitment shall be deemed to have purchased, a
participation in each Letter of Credit, in an amount equal to its
Pro Rata Share of the Risk Participation Liability of such Letter
of Credit, and each such Lender agrees to pay to Agent, for the
account of the Issuing Lender, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share
of any payments made by the Issuing Lender under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each
Lender with a Revolver Commitment hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to Agent, for the account of the
Issuing Lender, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each L/C
Disbursement made by the Issuing Lender and not reimbursed by
Borrowers on the date due as provided in
Section 2.12(a) , or of any reimbursement payment
required to be refunded to Borrowers for any reason. Each Lender
with a Revolver Commitment acknowledges and agrees that its
obligation to deliver to Agent, for the account of the Issuing
Lender, an amount equal to its respective Pro Rata Share of each
L/C Disbursement made by the Issuing Lender pursuant to this
Section 2.12(b) shall be absolute and unconditional and
such remittance shall be made notwithstanding the occurrence or
continuation of an
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Event of Default or Default or the
failure to satisfy any condition set forth in Section 3
. If any such Lender fails to make available to Agent the amount of
such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each L/C Disbursement made by
the Issuing Lender in respect of such Letter of Credit as provided
in this Section, such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting
Lender and Agent (for the account of the Issuing Lender) shall be
entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender together
with interest thereon at the Defaulting Lender Rate until paid in
full.
(c) Each Borrower
hereby agrees to indemnify, save, defend, and hold the Lender Group
harmless from any loss, cost, expense, or liability, and reasonable
attorneys fees incurred by the Lender Group arising out of or in
connection with any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no
Borrower shall be obligated hereunder to indemnify for any loss,
cost, expense, or liability to the extent that it is caused by the
gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender or any
other member of the Lender Group. Each Borrower agrees to be bound
by the Underlying Issuer’s regulations and interpretations of
any Underlying Letter of Credit or by Issuing Lender’s
interpretations of any L/C issued by Issuing Lender to or for such
Borrower’s account, even though this interpretation may be
different from such Borrower’s own, and each Borrower
understands and agrees that the Lender Group shall not be liable
for any error, negligence, or mistake, whether of omission or
commission, in following Borrowers’ instructions or those
contained in the Letter of Credit or any modifications, amendments,
or supplements thereto. Each Borrower understands that the L/C
Undertakings may require Issuing Lender to indemnify the Underlying
Issuer for certain costs or liabilities arising out of claims by
Borrowers against such Underlying Issuer. Each Borrower hereby
agrees to indemnify, save, defend, and hold the Lender Group
harmless with respect to any loss, cost, expense (including
reasonable attorneys fees), or liability incurred by the Lender
Group under any L/C Undertaking as a result of the Lender
Group’s indemnification of any Underlying Issuer; provided,
however, that no Borrower shall be obligated hereunder to indemnify
for any loss, cost, expense, or liability to the extent that it is
caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing
Lender or any other member of the Lender Group. Each Borrower
hereby acknowledges and agrees that neither the Lender Group nor
the Issuing Lender shall be responsible for delays, errors, or
omissions resulting from the malfunction of equipment in connection
with any Letter of Credit.
(d) Each Borrower
hereby authorizes and directs any Underlying Issuer to deliver to
the Issuing Lender all instruments, documents, and other writings
and property received by such Underlying Issuer pursuant to such
Underlying Letter of Credit and to accept and rely upon the Issuing
Lender’s instructions with respect to all matters arising in
connection with such Underlying Letter of Credit and the related
application.
(e) Any and all
issuance charges, commissions, fees, and costs incurred by the
Issuing Lender relating to Underlying Letters of Credit shall be
Lender Group Expenses for purposes of this Agreement and
immediately shall be reimbursable by Borrowers to Agent for the
account of the Issuing Lender; it being acknowledged and agreed by
each Borrower that, as of the Closing Date, the issuance charge
imposed by the prospective Underlying Issuer is .825% per
annum times the undrawn amount of each Underlying Letter of Credit,
that such issuance charge may be changed from time to time, and
that the Underlying Issuer also imposes a schedule of charges for
amendments, extensions, drawings, and renewals.
(f) If by reason of
(i) any change after the Closing Date in any applicable law,
treaty, rule, or regulation or any change in the interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority, or
(ii) compliance by the Underlying Issuer or the Lender Group
with any direction, request, or requirement (irrespective of
whether having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority or
monetary authority including, Regulation D of the Federal Reserve
Board as from time to time in effect (and any successor
thereto):
(i) any reserve, deposit, or
similar requirement is or shall be imposed or modified in respect
of any Letter of Credit issued hereunder, or
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(ii) there shall be imposed
on the Underlying Issuer or the Lender Group any other condition
regarding any Underlying Letter of Credit or any Letter of Credit
issued pursuant hereto;
and the result of the foregoing is to
increase, directly or indirectly, the cost to the Lender Group of
issuing, making, guaranteeing, or maintaining any Letter of Credit
or to reduce the amount receivable in respect thereof by the Lender
Group, then, and in any such case, Agent may, at any time within a
reasonable period after the additional cost is incurred or the
amount received is reduced, notify Administrative Borrower, and
Borrowers shall pay on demand such amounts as Agent may specify to
be necessary to compensate the Lender Group for such additional
cost or reduced receipt, together with interest on such amount from
the date of such demand until payment in full thereof at the rate
then applicable to Base Rate Loans hereunder. The determination by
Agent of any amount due pursuant to this Section, as set forth in a
certificate setting forth the calculation thereof in reasonable
detail, shall, in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error, be
final and conclusive and binding on all of the parties
hereto.
2.13 LIBOR
Option .
(a) Interest and
Interest Payment Dates . In lieu of having interest charged
at the rate based upon the Base Rate, Borrowers shall have the
option (the “ LIBOR Option ”) to have interest
on all or a portion of the Advances or the Term Loan be charged
(whether at the time when made (unless otherwise provided herein),
upon conversion from a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan, or upon
continuation of a LIBOR Rate Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan) at a rate
of interest based upon the LIBOR Rate. Interest on LIBOR Rate Loans
shall be payable on the earliest of (i) the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the date on which all
or any portion of the Obligations are accelerated pursuant to the
terms hereof, or (iii) the date on which this Agreement is
terminated pursuant to the terms hereof. On the last day of each
applicable Interest Period, unless Administrative Borrower properly
has exercised the LIBOR Option with respect thereto, the interest
rate applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan automatically shall convert
to the rate of interest then applicable to Base Rate Loans of the
same type hereunder. At any time that an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, Borrowers no longer shall have the
option to request that Advances or the Term Loan bear interest at a
rate based upon the LIBOR Rate and Agent shall have the right to
convert the interest rate on all outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans to
the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans hereunder.
(b) LIBOR
Election .
(i) Administrative Borrower
may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to exercise the LIBOR
Option by notifying Agent prior to 11:00 a.m. (California time) at
least 3 Business Days prior to the commencement of the proposed
Interest Period (the “ LIBOR Deadline ”). Notice
of Administrative Borrower’s election of the LIBOR Option for
a permitted portion of the Advances or the Term Loan and an
Interest Period pursuant to this Section shall be made by delivery
to Agent of a LIBOR Notice received by Agent before the LIBOR
Deadline, or by telephonic notice received by Agent before the
LIBOR Deadline (to be confirmed by delivery to Agent of a LIBOR
Notice received by Agent prior to 5:00 p.m. (California time) on
the same day). Promptly upon its receipt of each such LIBOR Notice,
Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the affected
Lenders.
(ii) Each LIBOR Notice shall
be irrevocable and binding on Borrowers. In connection with each
LIBOR Rate Loan, each Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold
Agent and the Lenders harmless against any loss, cost, or expense
incurred by Agent or any Lender as a result of (A) the payment
of any principal of any LIBOR Rate Loan other than on the last day
of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of
an Event of Default), (B) the conversion of any LIBOR Rate
Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto, or (C) the failure to borrow, convert, continue
or
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prepay any LIBOR Rate Loan on the date
specified in any LIBOR Notice delivered pursuant hereto (such
losses, costs, or expenses, “ Funding Losses ”).
Funding Losses shall, with respect to Agent or any Lender, be
deemed to equal the amount determined by Agent or such Lender to be
the excess, if any, of (1) the amount of interest that would
have accrued on the principal amount of such LIBOR Rate Loan had
such event not occurred, at the LIBOR Rate that would have been
applicable thereto, for the period from the date of such event to
the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in
the case of a failure to borrow, convert, or continue, for the
period that would have been the Interest Period therefor), minus
(2) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal
amount for such period at the interest rate which Agent or such
Lender would be offered were it to be offered, at the commencement
of such period, Dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period
in the London interbank market. A certificate of Agent or a Lender
delivered to Administrative Borrower setting forth any amount or
amounts that Agent or such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant
to this Section 2.13 shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
(iii) Borrowers shall have
not more than 5 LIBOR Rate Loans in effect at any given time.
Borrowers only may exercise the LIBOR Option for LIBOR Rate Loans
of at least $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in
excess thereof.
(c) Conversion
. Borrowers may convert LIBOR Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans at any
time; provided , however , that in the event that
LIBOR Rate Loans are converted or prepaid on any date that is not
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including
as a result of any automatic prepayment through the required
application by Agent of proceeds of Borrowers’ and their
Subsidiaries’ Collections in accordance with
Section 2.4(b) or for any other reason, including early
termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or
any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, each
Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold Agent and the Lenders
and their Participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses
in accordance with Section 2.13 (b)(ii) .
(d) Special Provisions
Applicable to LIBOR Rate .
(i) The LIBOR Rate may be
adjusted by Agent with respect to any Lender on a prospective basis
to take into account any additional or increased costs to such
Lender of maintaining or obtaining any eurodollar deposits or
increased costs, in each case, due to changes in applicable law
occurring subsequent to the commencement of the then applicable
Interest Period, including changes in tax laws (except changes of
general applicability in corporate income tax laws) and changes in
the reserve requirements imposed by the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (or any successor), excluding the Reserve
Percentage, which additional or increased costs would increase the
cost of funding or maintaining loans bearing interest at the LIBOR
Rate. In any such event, the affected Lender shall give
Administrative Borrower and Agent notice of such a determination
and adjustment and Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each
other Lender and, upon its receipt of the notice from the affected
Lender, Administrative Borrower may, by notice to such affected
Lender (y) require such Lender to furnish to Administrative
Borrower a statement setting forth the basis for adjusting such
LIBOR Rate and the method for determining the amount of such
adjustment, or (z) repay the LIBOR Rate Loans with respect to
which such adjustment is made (together with any amounts due under
Section 2.13(b)(ii) ).
(ii) In the event that any
change in market conditions or any law, regulation, treaty, or
directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation of
application thereof, shall at any time after the date hereof, in
the reasonable opinion of any Lender, make it unlawful or
impractical for such Lender to fund or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans or
to continue such funding or maintaining, or to determine or charge
interest rates at the LIBOR Rate, such Lender shall give notice of
such changed circumstances to Agent and Administrative Borrower and
Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each other Lender and
(y) in the case of any LIBOR Rate Loans of such Lender that
are outstanding, the date specified in such Lender’s notice
shall be deemed to be the last day of the Interest Period of such
LIBOR Rate Loans, and interest upon the LIBOR Rate Loans of such
Lender thereafter shall accrue interest at the rate then applicable
to Base Rate Loans, and (z) Borrowers shall not be entitled to
elect the LIBOR Option until such Lender determines that it would
no longer be unlawful or impractical to do so.
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(e) No Requirement of
Matched Funding . Anything to the contrary contained herein
notwithstanding, neither Agent, nor any Lender, nor any of their
Participants, is required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits
to fund or otherwise match fund any Obligation as to which interest
accrues at the LIBOR Rate. The provisions of this Section shall
apply as if each Lender or its Participants had match funded any
Obligation as to which interest is accruing at the LIBOR Rate by
acquiring eurodollar deposits for each Interest Period in the
amount of the LIBOR Rate Loans.
2.14 Capital
Requirements . If, after the date hereof, any Lender
determines that (i) the adoption of or change in any law,
rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital requirements for
banks or bank holding companies, or any change in the
interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority
charged with the administration thereof, or (ii) compliance by
such Lender or its parent bank holding company with any guideline,
request or directive of any such entity regarding capital adequacy
(whether or not having the force of law), has the effect of
reducing the return on such Lender’s or such holding
company’s capital as a consequence of such Lender’s
Commitments hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or
such holding company could have achieved but for such adoption,
change, or compliance (taking into consideration such
Lender’s or such holding company’s then existing
policies with respect to capital adequacy and assuming the full
utilization of such entity’s capital) by any amount deemed by
such Lender to be material, then such Lender may notify
Administrative Borrower and Agent thereof. Following receipt of
such notice, Borrowers agree to pay such Lender on demand the
amount of such reduction of return of capital as and when such
reduction is determined, payable within 90 days after presentation
by such Lender of a statement in the amount and setting forth in
reasonable detail such Lender’s calculation thereof and the
assumptions upon which such calculation was based (which statement
shall be deemed true and correct absent manifest error). In
determining such amount, such Lender may use any reasonable
averaging and attribution methods.
2.15 Joint and Several
Liability of Borrowers .
(a) Each Borrower is
accepting joint and several liability hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents in consideration of the financial accommodations to
be provided by the Lender Group under this Agreement, for the
mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of each Borrower and in
consideration of the undertakings of the other Borrowers to accept
joint and several liability for the Obligations.
(b) Each Borrower, jointly
and severally, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally accepts, not
merely as a surety but also as a co-debtor, joint and several
liability with the other Borrowers, with respect to the payment and
performance of all of the Obligations (including, without
limitation, any Obligations arising under this
Section 2.15 ), it being the intention of the parties
hereto that all the Obligations shall be the joint and several
obligations of each Borrower without preferences or distinction
among them.
(c) If and to the extent that
any Borrower shall fail to make any payment with respect to any of
the Obligations as and when due or to perform any of the
Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof, then in each such
event the other Borrowers will make such payment with respect to,
or perform, such Obligation.
(d) The Obligations of each
Borrower under the provisions of this Section 2.15
constitute the absolute and unconditional, full recourse
Obligations of each Borrower enforceable against each Borrower to
the full extent of its properties and assets.
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(e) Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement, each Borrower hereby waives
notice of acceptance of its joint and several liability, notice of
any Advances or Letters of Credit issued under or pursuant to this
Agreement, notice of the occurrence of any Default, Event of
Default, or of any demand for any payment under this Agreement,
notice of any action at any time taken or omitted by Agent or
Lenders under or in respect of any of the Obligations, any
requirement of diligence or to mitigate damages and, generally, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, all demands, notices and
other formalities of every kind in connection with this Agreement
(except as otherwise provided in this Agreement). Each Borrower
hereby assents to, and waives notice of, any extension or
postponement of the time for the payment of any of the Obligations,
the acceptance of any payment of any of the Obligations, the
acceptance of any partial payment thereon, any waiver, consent or
other action or acquiescence by Agent or Lenders at any time or
times in respect of any default by any Borrower in the performance
or satisfaction of any term, covenant, condition or provision of
this Agreement, any and all other indulgences whatsoever by Agent
or Lenders in respect of any of the Obligations, and the taking,
addition, substitution or release, in whole or in part, at any time
or times, of any security for any of the Obligations or the
addition, substitution or release, in whole or in part, of any
Borrower. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each
Borrower assents to any other action or delay in acting or failure
to act on the part of any Agent or Lender with respect to the
failure by any Borrower to comply with any of its respective
Obligations, including, without limitation, any failure strictly or
diligently to assert any right or to pursue any remedy or to comply
fully with applicable laws or regulations thereunder, which might,
but for the provisions of this Section 2.15 afford
grounds for terminating, discharging or relieving any Borrower, in
whole or in part, from any of its Obligations under this
Section 2.15 , it being the intention of each Borrower
that, so long as any of the Obligations hereunder remain
unsatisfied, the Obligations of each Borrower under this
Section 2.15 shall not be discharged except by
performance and then only to the extent of such performance. The
Obligations of each Borrower under this Section 2.15
shall not be diminished or rendered unenforceable by any winding
up, reorganization, arrangement, liquidation, reconstruction or
similar proceeding with respect to any Borrower or any Agent or
Lender.
(f) Each Borrower represents
and warrants to Agent and Lenders that such Borrower is currently
informed of the financial condition of Borrowers and of all other
circumstances which a diligent inquiry would reveal and which bear
upon the risk of nonpayment of the Obligations. Each Borrower
further represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that such
Borrower has read and understands the terms and conditions of the
Loan Documents. Each Borrower hereby covenants that such Borrower
will continue to keep informed of Borrowers’ financial
condition, the financial condition of other guarantors, if any, and
of all other circumstances which bear upon the risk of nonpayment
or nonperformance of the Obligations.
(g) The provisions of this
Section 2.15 are made for the benefit of Agent, Lenders
and their respective successors and assigns, and may be enforced by
it or them from time to time against any or all Borrowers as often
as occasion therefor may arise and without requirement on the part
of any such Agent, Lender, successor or assign first to marshal any
of its or their claims or to exercise any of its or their rights
against any Borrower or to exhaust any remedies available to it or
them against any Borrower or to resort to any other source or means
of obtaining payment of any of the Obligations hereunder or to
elect any other remedy. The provisions of this
Section 2.15 shall remain in effect until all of the
Obligations shall have been paid in full or otherwise fully
satisfied. If at any time, any payment, or any part thereof, made
in respect of any of the Obligations, is rescinded or must
otherwise be restored or returned by any Agent or Lender upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Borrower, or
otherwise, the provisions of this Section 2.15 will
forthwith be reinstated in effect, as though such payment had not
been made.
(h) Each Borrower hereby
agrees that it will not enforce any of its rights of contribution
or subrogation against any other Borrower with respect to any
liability incurred by it hereunder or under any of the other Loan
Documents, any payments made by it to Agent or Lenders with respect
to any of the Obligations or any collateral security therefor until
such time as all of the Obligations have been paid in full in cash.
Any claim which any Borrower may have against any other Borrower
with respect to any payments to any Agent or Lender hereunder or
under any other Loan Documents are hereby expressly made
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subordinate and junior in right of
payment, without limitation as to any increases in the Obligations
arising hereunder or thereunder, to the prior payment in full in
cash of the Obligations and, in the event of any insolvency,
bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other
similar proceeding under the laws of any jurisdiction relating to
any Borrower, its debts or its assets, whether voluntary or
involuntary, all such Obligations shall be paid in full in cash
before any payment or distribution of any character, whether in
cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any other
Borrower therefor.
(i) Each Borrower hereby
agrees that, after the occurrence and during the continuance of any
Default or Event of Default, the payment of any amounts due with
respect to the indebtedness owing by any Borrower to any other
Borrower is hereby subordinated to the prior payment in full in
cash of the Obligations. Each Borrower hereby agrees that after the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Default or Event of
Default, such Borrower will not demand, sue for or otherwise
attempt to collect any indebtedness of any other Borrower owing to
such Borrower until the Obligations shall have been paid in full in
cash. If, notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, such Borrower
shall collect, enforce or receive any amounts in respect of such
indebtedness, such amounts shall be collected, enforced and
received by such Borrower as trustee for Agent, and such Borrower
shall deliver any such amounts to Agent for application to the
Obligations in accordance with Section 2.4(b)
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3. CONDITIONS; TERM OF
AGREEMENT.
3.1 Conditions
Precedent to the Initial Extension of Credit . The
obligation of each Lender to make its extension of credit provided
for hereunder on the Closing Date, is subject to the fulfillment,
to the satisfaction of Agent and each Lender of each of the
conditions precedent set forth on Schedule 3.1 (the making
of such initial extension of credit by a Lender being conclusively
deemed to be its satisfaction or waiver of the conditions
precedent).
3.2 Conditions
Precedent to all Extensions of Credit . The obligation of
the Lender Group (or any member thereof) to make any Advances
hereunder at any time (or to extend any portion of the Term Loan or
any other credit hereunder) shall be subject to the following
conditions precedent:
(a) the representations and
warranties contained in this Agreement or in the other Loan
Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and
as of the date of such extension of credit, as though made on and
as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and
warranties relate solely to an earlier date);
(b) no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such
extension of credit, nor shall either result from the making
thereof;
(c) no injunction, writ,
restraining order, or other order of any nature restricting or
prohibiting, directly or indirectly, the extending of such credit
shall have been issued and remain in force by any Governmental
Authority against any Borrower, Agent, any Lender, or any of their
Affiliates; and
(d) no Material Adverse
Change shall have occurred.
3.3 Term . This
Agreement shall continue in full force and effect for a term ending
on January 5, 2011 (the “ Maturity Date ”).
The foregoing notwithstanding, the Lender Group, upon the election
of the Required Lenders, shall have the right to terminate its
obligations under this Agreement immediately and without notice
upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default.
3.4 Effect of
Termination . On the date of termination of this Agreement,
all Obligations (including contingent reimbursement obligations of
Borrowers with respect to outstanding Letters of Credit and
including all Bank Product Obligations) immediately shall become
due and payable without
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notice or demand (including
(a) either (i) providing cash collateral to be held by
Agent for the benefit of those Lenders with a Revolver Commitment
in an amount equal to 105% of the Letter of Credit Usage, or
(ii) causing the original Letters of Credit to be returned to
the Issuing Lender, and (b) providing cash collateral (in an
amount determined by Agent as sufficient to satisfy the reasonably
estimated credit exposure) to be held by Agent for the benefit of
the Bank Product Providers with respect to the Bank Product
Obligations). No termination of this Agreement, however, shall
relieve or discharge Borrowers of their duties, Obligations, or
covenants hereunder or under any other Loan Document and the
Agent’s Liens in the Collateral shall remain in effect until
all Obligations have been paid in full and the Lender Group’s
obligations to provide additional credit hereunder have been
terminated. When this Agreement has been terminated and all of the
Obligations have been paid in full and the Lender Group’s
obligations to provide additional credit under the Loan Documents
have been terminated irrevocably, Agent will, at Borrowers’
sole expense, execute and deliver any termination statements, lien
releases, mortgage releases, re-assignments of trademarks,
discharges of security interests, and other similar discharge or
release documents (and, if applicable, in recordable form) as are
reasonably necessary to release, as of record, the Agent’s
Liens and all notices of security interests and liens previously
filed by Agent with respect to the Obligations.
3.5 Early Termination
by Borrowers . Borrowers have the option, at any time upon
60 days prior written notice by Administrative Borrower to Agent,
to terminate this Agreement by paying to Agent, in cash, the
Obligations (including (a) either (i) providing cash
collateral to be held by Agent for the benefit of those lenders
with a Revolver Commitment in an amount equal to 105% of the Letter
of Credit Usage, or (ii) causing the original Letter of Credit
to be returned to the Issuing Lender, and (b) providing cash
collateral (in an amount determined by Agent as sufficient to
satisfy the reasonably estimated credit exposure) to be held by
Agent for the benefit of the Bank Product Providers with respect to
the Bank Products Obligations), in full. If Administrative Borrower
has sent a notice of termination pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, then the Commitments shall terminate and Borrowers shall
be obligated to repay the Obligations (including (a) either
(i) providing cash collateral to be held by Agent for the
benefit of those Lenders with a Revolver Commitment in an amount
equal to 105% of the Letter of Credit Usage, or (ii) causing
the original Letters of Credit to be returned to the Issuing
Lender, and (b) providing cash collateral (in an amount
determined by Agent as sufficient to satisfy the reasonably
estimated credit exposure) to be held by Agent for the benefit of
the Bank Product Providers with respect to the Bank Products
Obligations), in full on the date set forth as the date of
termination of this Agreement in such notice.
4. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES.
In order to induce the Lender
Group to enter into this Agreement, each Borrower makes the
following representations and warranties to the Lender Group which
shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects, as
of the date hereof, and shall be true, correct, and complete, in
all material respects, as of the Closing Date, and at and as of the
date of the making of each Advance (or other extension of credit)
made thereafter, as though made on and as of the date of such
Advance (or other extension of credit) (except to the extent that
such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier
date) and such representations and warranties shall survive the
execution and delivery of this Agreement:
4.1 No
Encumbrances . Each Borrower has good and indefeasible
title to, or a valid leasehold interest in, their personal property
assets and good and marketable title to, or a valid leasehold
interest in, their Real Property, in each case, free and clear of
Liens except for Permitted Liens.
4.2 Intentionally
Omitted .
4.3 Inventory .
Each item of Inventory is of good and merchantable quality, free
from known defects.
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4.4 Equipment .
Each material item of Equipment of Borrowers is used or held for
use in their business and is in good working order, ordinary wear
and tear and damage by casualty excepted.
4.5 Location of
Inventory and Equipment . Except as permitted by
Section 5.9, The Inventory and Equipment (other than vehicles
or Equipment out for repair) of Borrowers are not stored with a
bailee, warehouseman, or similar party and are located only at, or
in-transit between, the locations identified on Schedule 4.5
(as such Schedule may be updated pursuant to
Section 5.9 ).
4.6 Inventory
Records . Each Active Borrower keeps correct and accurate
records itemizing and describing the type, quality, and quantity of
its Inventory and the book value thereof.
4.7 State of
Incorporation; Location of Chief Executive Office; Organizational
Identification Number; Commercial Tort Claims .
(a) The jurisdiction of
organization of each Borrower is set forth on Schedule
4.7(a) .
(b) The chief executive
office of each Borrower is located at the address indicated on
Schedule 4.7(b) (as such Schedule may be updated pursuant to
Section 5.9 ).
(c) Each Borrower’s tax
identification numbers and organizational identification number, if
any, are identified on Schedule 4.7(c) .
(d) As of the Closing Date,
Borrowers do not hold any commercial tort claims, except as set
forth on Schedule 4.7(d) .
4.8 Due Organization
and Qualification; Subsidiaries .
(a) Each Borrower is duly
organized and existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization and qualified to do business in
any state where the failure to be so qualified reasonably could be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(b) Set forth on Schedule
4.8(b) , is a complete and accurate description of the
authorized capital Stock of each Borrower, by class, and, as of the
Closing Date, a description of the number of shares of each such
class that are issued and outstanding. Other than as described on
Schedule 4.8(b) , there are no subscriptions, options,
warrants, or calls relating to any shares of each Borrower’s
capital Stock, including any right of conversion or exchange under
any outstanding security or other instrument. No Borrower is
subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase
or otherwise acquire or retire any shares of its capital Stock or
any security convertible into or exchangeable for any of its
capital Stock.
(c) Set forth on Schedule
4.8(c) , is a complete and accurate list of each
Borrower’s direct and indirect Subsidiaries, showing:
(i) the jurisdiction of their organization, (ii) the
number of shares of each class of common and preferred Stock
authorized for each of such Subsidiaries, and (iii) the number
and the percentage of the outstanding shares of each such class
owned directly or indirectly by the applicable Borrower. All of the
outstanding capital Stock of each such Subsidiary has been validly
issued and is fully paid and non-assessable.
(d) Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.8 , there are no subscriptions, options,
warrants, or calls relating to any shares of any Borrower’s
Subsidiaries’ Capital Stock, including any right of
conversion or exchange under any outstanding security or other
instrument. No Borrower or any of its respective Subsidiaries is
subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase
or otherwise acquire or retire any shares of any Borrower’s
Subsidiaries’ capital Stock or any security convertible into
or exchangeable for any such capital Stock.
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4.9 Due Authorization;
No Conflict .
(a) As to each Borrower, the
execution, delivery, and performance by such Borrower of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party have
been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such
Borrower.
(b) As to each Borrower, the
execution, delivery, and performance by such Borrower of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party do
not and will not (i) violate any provision of federal, state,
or local law or regulation applicable to any Borrower, the
Governing Documents of any Borrower, or any order, judgment, or
decree of any court or other Governmental Authority binding on any
Borrower, (ii) conflict with, result in a breach of, or
constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under any material contractual obligation of any Borrower,
(iii) result in or require the creation or imposition of any
Lien of any nature whatsoever upon any properties or assets of
Borrower, other than Permitted Liens, or (iv) require any
approval of any Borrower’s interestholders or any approval or
consent of any Person under any material contractual obligation of
any Borrower, other than consents or approvals that have been
obtained and that are still in force and effect.
(c) Other than the filing of
financing statements, the execution, delivery, and performance by
each Borrower of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to
which such Borrower is a party do not and will not require any
registration with, consent, or approval of, or notice to, or other
action with or by, any Governmental Authority, other than consents
or approvals that have been obtained and that are still in force
and effect.
(d) As to each Borrower, this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Borrower is a
party, and all other documents contemplated hereby and thereby,
when executed and delivered by such Borrower will be the legally
valid and binding obligations of such Borrower, enforceable against
such Borrower in accordance with their respective terms, except as
enforcement may be limited by equitable principles or by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or similar laws
relating to or limiting creditors’ rights
generally.
(e) The Agent’s Liens
are validly created, perfected, and first priority Liens, subject
only to Permitted Liens.
4.10 Litigation
. Other than those matters disclosed in the Parent’s annual
report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and
Parent’s quarterly or current reports thereafter filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on or before the Closing
Date, and other than matters arising after the Closing Date that
reasonably could not be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change, there are no actions, suits, or proceedings pending or, to
the best knowledge of each Borrower, threatened against any
Borrower.
4.11 No Material
Adverse Change . All financial statements relating to
Active Borrowers that have been delivered by Active Borrowers to
the Lender Group have been prepared in accordance with GAAP
(except, in the case of unaudited financial statements, for the
lack of footnotes and being subject to year-end audit adjustments)
and present fairly in all material respects, Active
Borrowers’ financial condition as of the date thereof and
results of operations for the period then ended. There has not been
a Material Adverse Change with respect to Active Borrowers since
the date of the latest financial statements submitted to Agent on
or before the Closing Date.
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4.12 Fraudulent
Transfer .
(a) Each Active Borrower is
Solvent.
(b) No transfer of property
is being made by any Borrower and no obligation is being incurred
by any Borrower or in connection with the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents with the intent to
hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors of
Borrowers.
4.13 Employee
Benefits . None of Borrowers or any of their ERISA
Affiliates maintains or contributes to any Benefit Plan.
4.14 Environmental
Condition . Except as set forth on Schedule 4.14 ,
(a) to Borrowers’ knowledge, none of Borrowers’
properties or assets has ever been used by Borrowers, or, to the
best of Borrowers’ knowledge, by previous owners or operators
in the disposal of, or to produce, store, handle, treat, release,
or transport, any Hazardous Materials, where such use, production,
storage, handling, treatment, release or transport was in
violation, in any material respect, of any applicable Environmental
Law, (b) to Borrowers’ knowledge, none of
Borrowers’ properties or assets has ever been designated or
identified in any manner pursuant to any environmental protection
statute as a Hazardous Materials disposal site, (c) none of
Borrowers have received notice that a Lien arising under any
Environmental Law has attached to any revenues or to any Real
Property owned or operated by Borrowers, and (d) none of
Borrowers have received a summons, citation, notice, or directive
from the United States Environmental Protection Agency or any other
federal or state governmental agency concerning any action or
omission by any Borrower resulting in the releasing or disposing of
Hazardous Materials into the environment.
4.15 Intellectual
Property . Except as otherwise disclosed pursuant to
Section 4.10 , each Borrower owns, or holds licenses
in, all trademarks, trade names, copyrights that constitute the
Required Library, patents, patent rights, and licenses that are
necessary to the conduct of its business as currently conducted,
and attached hereto as Schedule 4.15 (as updated from time
to time) is a true, correct, and complete listing of all material
patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications,
copyrights relating to the Required Library, and copyright
registrations as to which such Borrower is the owner or is an
exclusive licensee.
4.16 Leases .
Borrowers enjoy peaceful and undisturbed possession under all
leases material to their business and to which they are parties or
under which they are operating and all of such material leases are
valid and subsisting and no material default by Borrowers exists
under any of them.
4.17 Deposit Accounts
and Securities Accounts . Set forth on Schedule 4.17
is a listing of all of Borrowers’ Deposit Accounts and
Securities Accounts, including, with respect to each bank or
securities intermediary (a) the name and address of such
Person, and (b) the account numbers of the Deposit Accounts or
Securities Accounts maintained with such Person.
4.18 Complete
Disclosure . All factual information (taken as a whole)
furnished by or on behalf of Borrowers in writing to Agent or any
Lender (including all information contained in the Schedules hereto
or in the other Loan Documents) for purposes of or in connection
with this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or any transaction
contemplated herein or therein is, and all other such factual
information (taken as a whole) hereafter furnished by or on behalf
of Borrowers in writing to Agent or any Lender will be, true and
accurate in all material respects on the date as of which such
information is dated or certified and not incomplete by omitting to
state any fact necessary to make such information (taken as a
whole) not misleading in any material respect at such time in light
of the circumstances under which such information was provided. On
the Closing Date, the Closing Date Projections represent, and as of
the date on which any other Projections are delivered to Agent,
such additional Projections represent Borrowers’ good faith
estimate of their future performance for the periods covered
thereby.
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4.19
Indebtedness . Set forth on Schedule 4.19 is a
true and complete list of all Indebtedness of each Borrower
outstanding immediately prior to the Closing Date that is to remain
outstanding after the Closing Date and such Schedule accurately
reflects the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness and
describes the principal terms thereof.
4.20 Inactive
Borrowers . Each of the Inactive Borrower is inactive and
does not conduct any business operations, except as may be related
to the dissolution of such Inactive Borrower or the consolidation
or merger of such Inactive Borrower with one or more Active
Borrowers as permitted under the terms of this
Agreement.
4.21 Material
Contracts . Neither the consummation of the QCSI Merger,
nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated under the
Merger Documents, nor the grant by the Borrowers of security
interests in the Collateral as contemplated hereunder and under the
other Loan Documents will conflict with, result in a breach of, or
constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under any material contractual obligation or material lease of any
Borrower.
4.22 Merger
Documents . Borrowers have delivered to Agent true and
correct copies of the Merger Agreement and the other material
documents related to the QCSI Merger (including all schedules,
exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications and assignments)
(collectively, together with the Merger Agreement, the “
Merger Documents ”). The Merger Documents are in full
force and effect as of the Closing Date and have not been
terminated, rescinded, or withdrawn. No Borrower that is party
thereto is in default in the performance of, or compliance with,
any provisions of the Merger Documents. The Merger Documents comply
in all material respects with, and contemporaneously with the
funding of the first Term Loan Draw on the Closing Date, the QCSI
Merger will be consummated in accordance with, all applicable laws.
The transactions contemplated by the Merger Documents will be,
contemporaneously with the funding of the first Term Loan Draw on
the Closing Date, consummated in accordance with their respective
terms and nothing has come to Borrowers’ attention that would
indicate that any of the representations and warranties contained
in the Merger Documents are not true and correct. To the best
knowledge of the Borrowers, none of the representations or
warranties of any other Person in any Merger Document contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit any fact necessary to
make such statements therein not misleading.
5. AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS.
Each Borrower covenants and
agrees that, until termination of all of the Commitments and
payment in full of the Obligations, Borrowers shall do all of the
following:
5.1 Accounting
System . Maintain a system of accounting that enables
Borrowers to produce financial statements in accordance with GAAP
and maintain records pertaining to the Collateral that contain
information as from time to time reasonably may be requested by
Agent. Borrowers also shall keep a reporting system that shows all
additions, sales, claims, returns, and allowances with respect to
their sales.
5.2 Collateral
Reporting . Provide Agent (and if so requested by Agent,
with copies for each Lender) with each of the reports set forth on
Schedule 5.2 at the times specified therein. In
addition, each Borrower agrees to cooperate fully with Agent to
facilitate and implement a system of electronic collateral
reporting in order to provide electronic reporting of each of the
items set forth above.
5.3 Financial
Statements, Reports, Certificates . Deliver to Agent, with
copies to each Lender, each of the financial statements, reports,
or other items set forth on Schedule 5.3 at the time
specified herein. In addition, Parent agrees that no Subsidiary of
Parent will have a fiscal year different from that of
Parent.
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5.4 Intentionally
Omitted .
5.5 Inspection
. Permit Agent, each Lender, and each of their duly authorized
representatives or agents to visit any of its properties and
inspect any of its assets or books and records, to examine and make
copies of its books and records, and to discuss its affairs,
finances, and accounts with, and to be advised as to the same by,
its officers and employees at such reasonable times and intervals
as Agent or any such Lender may designate and, so long as no
Default or Event of Default exists, with reasonable prior notice to
Administrative Borrower.
5.6 Maintenance of
Properties . Maintain and preserve all of their properties
which are necessary or useful in the proper conduct to their
business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear, tear,
and casualty excepted (and except where the failure to do so could
not be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change), and comply
at all times with the provisions of all material leases to which it
is a party as lessee, so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture
thereof or thereunder.
5.7 Taxes .
Cause all assessments and taxes, whether real, personal, or
otherwise, due or payable by, or imposed, levied, or assessed
against Borrowers, or any of their respective assets to be paid in
full, before delinquency or before the expiration of any extension
period, except to the extent that the validity of such assessment
or tax shall be the subject of a Permitted Protest. Borrowers will
make timely payment or deposit of all tax payments and withholding
taxes required of them by applicable laws, including those laws
concerning F.I.C.A., F.U.T.A., state disability, and local, state,
and federal income taxes, and will, upon request, furnish Agent
with proof satisfactory to Agent indicating that the applicable
Borrower has made such payments or deposits.
5.8 Insurance
.
(a) At Borrowers’
expense, maintain insurance respecting their assets wherever
located, covering loss or damage by fire, theft, explosion, and all
other hazards and risks as ordinarily are insured against by other
Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses, other than
earthquake insurance. Borrowers also shall maintain business
interruption, public liability, and product liability insurance, as
well as insurance against larceny, embezzlement, and criminal
misappropriation. All such policies of insurance shall be in such
amounts and with such insurance companies as are reasonably
satisfactory to Agent. Borrowers shall deliver copies of all such
policies to Agent with an endorsement naming Agent as the sole loss
payee (under a satisfactory lender’s loss payable
endorsement) or additional insured, as appropriate. Each policy of
insurance or endorsement shall contain a clause requiring the
insurer to give not less than 30 days prior written notice to Agent
in the event of cancellation of the policy for any reason
whatsoever.
(b) Administrative Borrower
shall give Agent prompt notice of any loss exceeding $50,000
covered by such insurance. So long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, Borrowers shall have the exclusive
right to settle any losses payable under any such insurance
policies which are less than $200,000. Following the occurrence and
during the continuation of an Event of Default, or in the case of
any losses payable under such insurance exceeding $200,000, Agent
shall have the exclusive right to settle any losses payable under
any such insurance policies, without any liability to Borrowers
whatsoever in respect of such settlements. Any monies received as
payment for any loss under any insurance policy mentioned above
(other than liability insurance policies) or as payment of any
award or compensation for condemnation or taking by eminent domain,
shall be paid over to Agent to be applied at the option of the
Required Lenders either to the prepayment of the Obligations or to
be disbursed to Administrative Borrower under staged payment terms
reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders for application to
the cost of repairs, replacements, or restorations; provided
, however , that, with respect to any such monies in an
aggregate
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amount during any 12 consecutive month
period not in excess of $200,000, so long as (A) no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing,
(B) Borrowers’ Excess Availability is greater than
$5,000,000, (C) Administrative Borrower shall have given
Lender prior written notice of the Borrowers intention to apply
such monies to the costs of repairs, replacement, or restoration of
the property which is the subject of the loss, destruction, or
taking by condemnation, (D) the monies are held in a cash
collateral account in which Lender has a perfected first-priority
security interest, and (E) Borrowers complete such repairs,
replacements, or restoration within 180 days after the initial
receipt of such monies, Borrowers shall have the option to apply
such monies to the costs of repairs, replacement, or restoration of
the property which is the subject of the loss, destruction, or
taking by condemnation unless and to the extent that such
applicable period shall have expired without such repairs,
replacements, or restoration being made, in which case, any amounts
remaining in the cash collateral account shall be paid to Lender
and applied as set forth above.
5.9 Location of
Inventory and Equipment . Keep Borrowers’ Inventory
and Equipment (other than vehicles and Equipment out for repair)
only at the locations identified on Schedule 4.5 and
their chief executive offices only at the locations identified on
Schedule 4.7(b) ; provided , however , that
Administrative Borrower may amend Schedule 4.5 or
Schedule 4.7 so long as such amendment occurs by written
notice to Agent not less than 30 days prior to the date on which
such Inventory or Equipment is moved to such new location or such
chief executive office is relocated, so long as such new location
is within the continental United States, and so long as, at the
time of such written notification, the applicable Borrower provides
Agent a Collateral Access Agreement with respect thereto;
provided , further , that Borrowers may maintain, at
any time, Inventory and Equipment with an aggregate market value
not to exceed $150,000 in locations other than those ide
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